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‘Stepping into the painting’: Franz Marc, Mary Oliver and the ekphrastic process

Literator, 2018
This article discusses Mary Oliver’s poem, ‘Franz Marc’s Blue Horses’, as an ekphrastic poem. More specifically, the discussion opens with a brief overview aimed at an understanding of ekphrasis to show how its development through the centuries has ...
Tony Ullyatt
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Memories of Future Masculine Identities: A Comparison of Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember it for you Wholesale”, the 1990 Film Total Recall and its 2012 Remake

Between, 2014
Recent remakes of iconic science fiction films such as Total Recall, far from merely reproducing cultural landscapes from the past, are actively producing new constructions of categories of identity such as gender and sexuality. In particular, in the two
Amaya Fernández-Menicucci
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On the Possibility and Plurality of Worlds: from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Le Crime étrange de Mr Hyde

Sillages Critiques, 2004
When an academic and Stevenson specialist writes a first novel meant as a rewriting of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he tries to justify, with a hindsight, how he came to bridge the gap between his research and his post-modern Victorian ...
Jean-Pierre Naugrette
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Fearsome Acts of Interpretation: Audiovisual Historiography, Film Theory and Gangs of New York

Film-Philosophy, 2017
This article revisits Jean-Louis Comolli's “Historical Fiction: A Body Too Much” (1978) in the spirit of film-philosophy's various efforts to reassess the field's seminal texts, and it recasts Comolli's attentive analyses of film acting in terms of the ...
Mike Meneghetti
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The Essay Film and Space: The Essayistic Filmic Space as aLocation of Thought [PDF]

, 2014
This practice-led research investigates the function of filmic space in essayistic discourse through the dialogic relationship between the essay film My Pink City that reflects on post-Soviet urban space in Yerevan and a written thesis that examines the ...
Gegisian, A.
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Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation [PDF]

, 2001
A key issue for models of metaphor comprehension is to explain how in some metaphorical comparison , only some features of B are transferred to A. The features of B that are transferred to A depend both on A and on B.
Thomas, Michael S.C., Mareschal, Denis
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Cross-cultural interpretation of filmic metaphors: A think-aloud experiment

, 2023
Think-aloud experiment to develop a mental model for metaphor narrative construction of filmic ...
Lorena Bort-Mir, Marianna Bolognesi
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“There is only a thin red line between the sane and the mad”: mind, culture, language and metaphor “There is only a thin red line between the sane and the mad”: mind, culture, language and metaphor

Ilha do Desterro, 2008
The present paper considers points of convergence of common metaphors and imagination in three languages: European Portuguese, English and Polish, focusing mostly on interactions among imagination, visual perception and cognition.
Hanna Jakubowicz Batoréo
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(Mega-) metaphor in the text-worlds of economic crisis: towards a situated view of metaphor in discourse [PDF]

, 2013
Building on Werth’s (1994) notion of ‘megametaphor’, in this thesis I examine the discourse-level conceptual effects of metaphor in five op-ed articles about the 2008 British financial crisis.
Browse, Sam
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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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